A 20km section of the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau GiayExpressway will open to traffic later this month, the investor of theproject has said.
Mai Tuan Anh, director of theVietnam Expressway Company (VEC), said the section of the expresswayfrom the Eastern Ring Road (also called the Second Ring road) in Ho ChiMinh City's District 9 to National Highway N°51 in neighbouring Dong Naiprovince is scheduled to begin temporary operation on December 30.
This section will shorten the distance from Ho Chi Minh City to LongThanh from 45km to 22km, and from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau from120km to 95km.
The Ho Chi Minh City - Dau Giay -Long Thanh expressway is 55km long, connecting the southern hub withNational Highway N°51, Long Thanh International Airport and NationalHighway N°1A.
It requires total investment of about20.630 trillion VND (nearly 978.3 million USD). Capital will come fromloans provided by the Asian Development Bank, official developmentassistance (ODA) loans from the Japanese Government and counter-capitalfrom the Vietnamese Government.
Anh said the newexpressway would help ease traffic congestion on National Highway 1A inthe Southern Economic Zone covering Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa and VungTau.
According to VEC, during the temporaryoperation, vehicles allowed to travel include motorbikes operating atunder 70km per hour, three-wheeled taxis, tractors, vehicles carryingtoxic and inflammable goods, trailers, tank trucks, 10-tonne and overtrucks, and 20 - 40 feet-long trucks.
They will be allowed to travel between 60 and 100 km per hour on the expressway during the time, said Anh.
He said a toll-collection station would be placed at km11 in Long Phuoc Commune in Ho Chi Minh City's District 9.
During the first stage, the new expressway will have eight toll lanes(four on each side) and be enlarged to 14 lanes when completed.
Vehicles under 12 seats and buses under two tonnes will have to pay2,000 VND per km. Twelve- to 30-seat and two- to four-tonne trucks willpay 3,000 VND per km, and 31-seat buses and four- to10-tonne vehicles4,000 VND per km.
The builders of the expressway area consortium of the Construction Engineering Co. N°6 (Cienco 6),Construction Engineering Co, N°8 (Cienco 8) and the Korean constructionand engineering company POSCO.
The Vietnam Expressway Company is the investor of the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Project.-VNA
Mai Tuan Anh, director of theVietnam Expressway Company (VEC), said the section of the expresswayfrom the Eastern Ring Road (also called the Second Ring road) in Ho ChiMinh City's District 9 to National Highway N°51 in neighbouring Dong Naiprovince is scheduled to begin temporary operation on December 30.
This section will shorten the distance from Ho Chi Minh City to LongThanh from 45km to 22km, and from Ho Chi Minh City to Vung Tau from120km to 95km.
The Ho Chi Minh City - Dau Giay -Long Thanh expressway is 55km long, connecting the southern hub withNational Highway N°51, Long Thanh International Airport and NationalHighway N°1A.
It requires total investment of about20.630 trillion VND (nearly 978.3 million USD). Capital will come fromloans provided by the Asian Development Bank, official developmentassistance (ODA) loans from the Japanese Government and counter-capitalfrom the Vietnamese Government.
Anh said the newexpressway would help ease traffic congestion on National Highway 1A inthe Southern Economic Zone covering Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa and VungTau.
According to VEC, during the temporaryoperation, vehicles allowed to travel include motorbikes operating atunder 70km per hour, three-wheeled taxis, tractors, vehicles carryingtoxic and inflammable goods, trailers, tank trucks, 10-tonne and overtrucks, and 20 - 40 feet-long trucks.
They will be allowed to travel between 60 and 100 km per hour on the expressway during the time, said Anh.
He said a toll-collection station would be placed at km11 in Long Phuoc Commune in Ho Chi Minh City's District 9.
During the first stage, the new expressway will have eight toll lanes(four on each side) and be enlarged to 14 lanes when completed.
Vehicles under 12 seats and buses under two tonnes will have to pay2,000 VND per km. Twelve- to 30-seat and two- to four-tonne trucks willpay 3,000 VND per km, and 31-seat buses and four- to10-tonne vehicles4,000 VND per km.
The builders of the expressway area consortium of the Construction Engineering Co. N°6 (Cienco 6),Construction Engineering Co, N°8 (Cienco 8) and the Korean constructionand engineering company POSCO.
The Vietnam Expressway Company is the investor of the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Project.-VNA
